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Lory Student Center, Colorado State University

January 11, 2007

A "TOWN HALL" MEETING: Where is the Prairie Growing?

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Poster Abstracts

Author(s):

Title:

Adams, M. and M. F. Murphy

Entomology through Inquiry: Grassland Ecology

 

Aldana, J. and P. Stapp

Effects of prairie dogs on aboveground activity of Thirteen-lined ground squirrels

 

Bontii, E.

Effect of prescribed burning on microbial structure and trace gas fluxes in shortgrass steppe

 

Brennan, M. and L. Read

Management of Fragmented Grassland Habitat in an Urban/Agricultural Interface

 

Burke, I.C.

Shortgrass Steppe Field Research, Education, and Outreach:  New Field Station Facilities Will Support our Excellence

 

Conrey, R.

Abundance and nest success in burrowing owl populations that are influenced by prairie dogs and plague

 

Derner, J.D., J.K. Detling, and M.F.  Antolin

 

Black-tailed prairie dogs affect livestock weight gains in shortgrass steppe

Gibson, L. and B. Wolk

If you water it, it will grow: Using maps to bring population growth and water use concepts from the shortgrass steppe to the classroom

 

Heisler, J.

Large precipitation events increase plant productivity in the shortgrass steppe

 

Ippolito, J.A., K.A. Barbarick, and M.W. Paschke

 

Long-Term Composted Biosolids Land Application Affects Rangeland Soils and Plants

Kelly, E.F.

Shortgrass Steppe Long Term Ecological Research in Colorado

 

LeCain, D.

Prairie Heating and CO2 Enrichment (PHACE) project: Semi-arid grassland responses to warming and elevated CO2 near Cheyenne, WY

 

Melzer, S.

Quantifying the Primary Controls on Silica Storage and Mobilization in Grass Dominated Ecosystems

 

Milchunas, D.

Ultraviolet Radiation, Precipitation, and Litter Chemistry Effects on Plant Litter Decomposition in the Shortgrass Steppe

 

Morgan, J.A.

 

Plant and microbial community responses to CO2 in Colorado’s Shortgrass Steppe

Mortenson, M.

Everybody Wins!!  Happy Cattle Make for Happy Staff at the New Low Stress and Low Maintenance Facilities at CPER.

 

Munson, S.

Plant Community and Ecosystem Change on Conservation Reserve Program Lands in Northeastern Colorado

 

Newbold, T.A.S., P. Stapp, K.E. Levensailor, J.D. Derner, and W.K. Lauenroth

 

Using livestock grazing to improve habitat for Mountain Plovers: A summary of responses after 3 years of treatments

Norman, J.

Functional Linkages of Watersheds (FLoWs) and Terrestrial Functional Conductivity (FunConn)

 

Norvell, K.L., N.C. Hansen, D.G. Westfall

 

Runoff and Erosion in No-Till Dryland Agroecosystems

Peterson, T.

The Curtis Ranch Land-Use Change Experiment:  Measuring Land-Use Change Impacts on Carbon Dynamics in the Shortgrass Steppe.

 

Quirk, M.H.

Effects of Black-Tailed Prairie Dog (Cynomys ludovicianus) Activity on Soil Foodweb Structure in the Shortgrass Steppe

 

Rickey, M.

Colorado Natural Areas Program

 

Scheintaub, M., A. Knapp, J. Derner, and G. Kelly

 

The response of the shortgrass steppe to fire

Sterling Krank, L.

Prairie Dog Coalition

 

Sturrock, C.J. (Jim) & D. G. Sturrock

The Chalk Bluff Escarpment Economic Exploitation, Reclamation-Past-Present-Future Lonesome Pines Land & Cattle Co., Grover, CO

 

Theobald, D.,  N. Peterson, and G. Wilcox

Colorado Ownership, Management and Protection: COMaP – Mapping the Status and Trends of Colorado’s Protected Areas

 

Turner, K.

Carbon and Nitrogen Input of CRP Plant Species

 

Vandever, M.

Refining Conservation Reserve Program Management to Meet Regional Objectives: Evaluationof Limited Grazing on Succession and Stability of Conservation Reserve Program Grasslands in Shortgrass Steppe of Eastern Colorado



For more information contact Sallie Sprague, (970)-491-2366, e-mail: Sallie.Sprague@colostate.edu,

Shortgrass Steppe LTER, Campus Delivery 1170, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523-1170

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